Minutes within talking to his new football team for the first time, Scott Meyer brought up bringing a CIF Southern Section title to Corona del Mar High. Keep in mind that Meyer had never coached or played in a section title game.
The meeting came inside...

Two former Corona del Mar High boys' soccer standouts are teaming up on the pitch for another team overseas this month.
Jack McBean and Grady Howe left for Spain on Sunday,April Fool's Day. This is no joke, though.
The two are with the Los Angeles...

Win or lose, Coach Scott Meyer always meets with his Corona del Mar High football team near one of the end zones on the field. He goes over the game, stresses the positives, and never singles out a player for making a mistake.
Earlier in the year,...

Not long ago I wrote a column about how sometimes in terms like "teachers' union" and "homeowners' policy" the apostrophe is optional. If you really mean that the first noun possesses the second, an apostrophe makes sense. But if the first noun is...

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Last month, I accepted an offer to write a weekly column for the real estate supplement that is included with the Daily Pilot each Saturday. That supplement also appears in newspapers stretching from Seal Beach to San Clemente, which gives me a significantly larger audience and a chance to write about an important subject in which I gained some expertise a few years ago while writing for another publication.
My first real estate column appeared Dec. 18 and there is one in today's supplement. This will be...

COSTA MESA — Poop is her biggest seller.
To be exact, fake poop is the most popular item year-round. It's sold by the piles, said Sherry Newberg, owner of House of Humor.
The magic, gag gift and costume shop on Baker Street has been a backbone of Costa Mesa festivities for decades. While Newberg has owned the store for 27 years, its history goes back about 50 years with a prior owner, she said.
"[The prior owner] made a lot of money before there were pop-up stores and Party City," Newberg...